diff --git a/util/lib/puppet/parser/functions/base64.rb b/util/lib/puppet/parser/functions/base64.rb
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+
+require 'base64'
+
+module Puppet::Parser::Functions
+    newfunction(:base64, :type => :rvalue) do |args|
+        Base64.encode64(args[0])
+    end
+end